A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - Section Two - Division F - The Law of
Attraction

3. The Twenty-two Methods of Group Interplay

These
methods of group interplay can only be grasped through a consideration of the fact that
all groups are to be found on one or other of the seven Rays, and that their interaction
will, therefore, be triple. This must again be regarded as having:

A triple internal interplay.

A triple
external interaction.

We might, therefore, take the seven Rays and give the names for the three ways in which
the groups on any particular ray interact with each other, remembering that as we consider
them, we are really studying the twenty-one vibrations of the Law of Attraction or motion,
with the basic vibration, which is the synthesis of the twenty-one added, thus making the
twenty-two:

Ray
Methods of Activity

Ray of
Power.

1.
Destruction of forms through group interplay.

2.
Stimulation of the Self, or egoic principle.

3. Spiritual
impulse, or energy.

Ray of
Love Wisdom.

4. Construction of forms through group intercourse.

5. Stimulation of desire, the love principle.

6. Soul impulse, or energy.

Ray of
Activity or Adaptability.

7. Vitalizing of forms through group work.

8. Stimulation of forms, the etheric or pranic principle.

9. Material impulse, or energy. [1223]

Ray
of Harmony, Union.

10. Perfecting of forms through group interplay.

11. Stimulation of the solar Angels, or the manasic principle.

12. Buddhic energy.

Ray of
Concrete Knowledge.

13.Correspondence of forms to type, through group influence.

14. Stimulation of logoic dense physical body, the three worlds.

15. Manasic energy or impulse.

Ray of
Abstract Idealism or Devotion.

16. Reflection of reality through group work.

17. Stimulation of the Man through desire.

18. Desire energy, instinct and aspiration.

Ray of Ceremonial Order.

19. Union of
energy and substance through group activity.

20.
Stimulation of all etheric forms.

21. Vital
energy.

These
twenty-one methods and their synthesis sum up very largely all that can be said anent the
actions and motions of all deva substance and all forms. Under the Law of Attraction, the
interplay between these ray forces and all atomic forms is brought about, and
manifestation becomes a fact in nature, and the great Maya is. It might here be
noted in conclusion that the following factors:

3 Atomic Relations
7 Laws
22 Methods of activity
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make the
thirty-two vibrations necessary to produce, as far as man is concerned, the five planes of
evolution. There are, as we know, the thirty-five subplanes, or in reality the thirty-two
minor vibrations and the three which dominate. Just as the three planes of the Ego on
[1224] the mental plane dominate the remaining planes in the three worlds, so in the five
worlds of the Hierarchy the three higher subplanes of the atmic plane hold an analogous
place.